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PEDIATRICS Vol. 107 No. 5 May 2001, pp. 1239

Diagnosis and Evaluation of the Child With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

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To the Editor.

The AAP's clinical practice guideline1 opens: "Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurobehavioral disorder of childhood." "Neurobehavioral" implies an abnormality of the brain---a disease. And yet, no confirmatory, diagnostic abnormality has been found.

With 6 million children said to have it, most of them on addictive, dangerous stimulants, ambiguity as to the scientific status of ADHD is not acceptable.

Goodwin2 acknowledged the "narrow definition of disease that requires the presence of a biological abnormality."

Carey3 testified . . . [Full Text of this Article]